Carolla Explains Hollywood’s Silence on Free Speech Fight

Celebrities are hardly shy when it comes to the hot button issues of the day.

Immigration

Abortion

Foreign policy

The Second Amendment

Yet celebrities are virtually silent when it comes to the assault on free speech happening on college campuses nationwide. For every Bill Maher or Richard Dreyfuss there are countless stars yet to say a public peep on the matter.

Adam Carolla thinks he knows why.

Sure, stars are technically outraged that some college speakers can’t finish a presentation without scrambling for their safety. But look who those speakers are.

Ben Shapiro

Ann Coulter

Milo Yiannopoulos

Heather Mac Donald

Conservatives, all. And suddenly any potential outrage fades to black in Hollywood.

“They disagree with what the guy is saying, so it’s a good thing [that they’re silenced],” Carolla says.

Carolla is teaming up with syndicated radio host Dennis Prager to create “No Safe Spaces.” The upcoming documentary captures how campus radicals are stifling free speech and, in some cases, committing violence along the way.

Carolla may be passionate about the First Amendment, but he doesn’t blame the students for the problem.

“The kids are 19, stupid and high. They’ve never not had a house with four TV sets in it. We shouldn’t be listening to them,” he says. “What’s going in with the 50-year-olds running the place? That’s the story that’s missing [in the media].”

“No Safe Spaces” hopes to fill in those blanks.

After all, it’s one thing for students to take over a campus building or two. It’s something else when the school’s leaders genuflect to their outrageous demands. Carolla compares the situation to the classic “Twilight Zone” episode featuring Bill Mumy as an all-powerful child.

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All university public funding, legislative favors and tax exempt status should be stopped immediately. No grants, no scholarships, no handouts, no tax breaks- absolutely zero support, direct or indirect.

Comparing what Carolla is doing versus what The Goreacles “Inconvenient lies” did is an absurd analogy made by the very kind of person Carolla is speaking about in the article. The leftwit is too dumb to realize it.

Adam is spreading LIBERTY. Gore is spreading MARXISM at the point of a made up gun. Gore is one of the insane leftwits of which you speak.

If it were a just world the worm would turn and the Hollywood waiters and maids who call themselves celebrities would have their speech censored and stopped…since they are all for it…unlike when it happens to others…censoring theirs would actually improve the world for the rest of us.

the vast majority of hollywood types are children stuck in play time. I am sure there are educated and intellectuals among them, but herd and mob thinking is the standard. They are only alphas in life because stupid people treat them that way. They are not special and need to be reminded of that constantly.

” it’s one thing for students to take over a campus building or two. It’s something else when the school’s leaders genuflect to their outrageous demands”

“School leaders” have been doing that since the 60s. So the problem is not the current crop of “50 yr olds” OR the current crop of “19 yr olds”. Nor is it that the problem has been hidden or that the story is unknown.

The problem is that everyone accepts the Left’s principles about ‘free speech’ – and has since BEFORE the 60s.